Mark Perryman provides a selection of 2017 sporting reads for the post-festive recovery period. There’s nothing like Christmas to put on an inch or two where we don’t want to. Sitting in front of the TV for hours and days on end doesn’t help much either. For many, a New Year’s…

The recent exposure of greed and possible corruption at the highest levels of English football raise questions about the way sport in Britain, under tremendously strong and well-financed commercial pressures, is changing. In the first of a series of articles, Martin Cloake provides an introduction to football's 'culture wars', linking…